GWNET in partnership with the Clean Energy Solutions Center will host this webinar as the fifth in a six-part webinar series on Gender Equality for a More Rapid and Inclusive Energy Transition. This webinar will spotlight the data and evidence base around women’s entrepreneurship in the energy sector that participants can use to inform policy and program design going forward.

Presentations will highlight findings related to:

Strengthening the Women’s Entrepreneurship Ecosystem within the Energy Sector (report)

Women’s entrepreneurship, enterprise and financing supports, and productive uses of energy in West Africa

The IFC’s Energy2Equal program efforts to advance women’s entrepreneurship through corporate supply chains and community engagement and investment strategy.

The presentations will be followed by an interactive question and answer session with the audience.

Panellists

Allie Glinski, International Center for Research on Women

Mathieu Dalle, Energy for Impact

Anne Njambi Kabugi, International Finance Corporation

Caroline McGregor, moderator

Certification The Clean Energy Solutions Center and Global Women’s Network for the Energy transition will provide a certificate of completion for any participant who completes all six offerings of this webinar series. Contact us for more information.

SponsorsThe Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments, advisors and analysts create policies and programs that advance the deployment of clean energy technologies. The Solutions Center is an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a global forum to share best practices and promote policies and programs that encourage and facilitate the transition to a global clean energy economy.

GWNET aims to advance the global energy transition by connecting and empowering women working in sustainable energy in all parts of the world through interdisciplinary networking, advocacy, training, coaching and mentoring. It is a non-profit membership organisation with more than 800 members in over 88 countries.

C3E Internationalaims to advance women’s participation in clean energy by creating opportunities and closing the gender gap across five focus areas: (1) awards and recognition, (2) gender data and benchmarking, (3) career development/mentorship, and (4) dialogue/communications, and (5) the Equal by 30 Campaign. In an effort to improve access to gender-disaggregated data in the energy sector and share knowledge about how to make the sector more gender balanced, C3E International released its 2019 Status Report on Gender Equality in the Energy Sector